I think I've found the Debian discussion (October 2012): http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.python/8188
Lack of PYTHONWARNINGS was brought up late in the discussion thread but I think the understanding that when a particular user sets an environment variable they want it to apply to all scripts they run was kind of lost in the followups (It wasn't directly addressed or mentioned again.) -Toshio On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >>I could see that as a difference. However, the environment variables >>give users the ability to change things globally whereas overriding >>the shebang line is case-by-case so it's not a complete replacement >>of the functionality. > > You make some good points. I guess it's a trade-off between flexibility and a > known secure execution environment. I'm not sure there's a right answer; > different admins might have valid different opinions. > > Cheers, > -Barry > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/a.badger%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com